Will this run locally, or is part of the work outsourced?
With "Recall", can law enforcement ask your laptop "Has your user done anything suspicious lately"?
With "Recall", can law enforcement ask your laptop "Has your user done anything suspicious lately"?
https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2024/05/20/introducing-copi...
Are they encrypted? Can Microsoft access them if compelled by law enforcement?
The logging already exists. Whether the interface is AI or a command line tool is not so interesting.
Besides the "suspicious" stuff has other touch points like Google, ISPs, AWS, etc, etc. Those logs have been easy to get a hold of (with legal backing) - historically speaking.
This is a poor take. Law enforcement needs a warrant to seize your computer to get your data normally. Law enforcement only needs a compliant and willing corporate person to willingly give over your data to law enforcement. It's about who owns it and where is it located and the protections around it.
They wouldn't be continuously trying to ban encryption worldwide if that was true. There's plenty of things everyone can do to protect themselves.
And for the law enforcement, I presume if they can log into your account, they can likely extract and view everything if you have the feature enabled.
Considering we seem to be putting safety largely out the window, I can see someone saying "yeah I want to be able to ask my other computer what I did on a different computer" or whatever. Thats valuable! Ignoring the risks that involves.
Also, even if it is run locally that likely means that some sort of additional logging (possibly screenshots given the mention of "photographic memory") on top of what is already in the system logs to achieve this.
Windows 11 LTSC, which will hopefully have these features ripped out, can't come soon enough.
I bought a second computer recently which was the same as my Samsung Galaxy Book 3 Pro 360 --- after setting up Windows I found that it had downloaded _all_ of my files onto the new computer, but the wallpaper wasn't the same --- went to my old one, figured out where the file was and copied it to the desktop. While I was trying to figure out how I'd copy the file over, the file appeared on the desktop of my new computer.